I can't remember a time in my life when every day turning on the news was an adventure of epic proportions. It's wildly entertaining. Frightening to be sure, but I'm not bored.

Also, deep in "Ordeal of Fire" and whenever I hear someone say "we've never been here before," it's not entirely true. The influence of a foreign power is new, but the fractured electorate and impotent, deadlocked legislature is straight out of the 1850s. The scary part is the last time thing we were remotely like this, we ended up in a Civil War.